HongKong

High Court ruling involving Hong Kong protest slogan not binding in sedition case, judge says




A ruling over the meaning of a protest slogan in Hong Kong’s first trial under the national security law has no binding power on a case in a lower court involving an opposition activist charged with sedition for uttering the same phrase, a District Court judge has said.But Judge Stanley Chan Kwong-chi on Thursday agreed the judgment handed down earlier by the Court of First Instance was “instructional, convincing and applicable”, and questioned the need for two defence experts to testify again…



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